Gun enthusiast opens shop

Owner: Specialty tools, modified weapons can't be found anywhere else

12:47 AM,
Mar. 28, 2014

Justin Scheffler has opened Scheffler's Straight Shooters in Crooksville. Scheffler, seen with a World War II-era Mosin-Nagant 7.62x54 cal rifle he modernized, is a Federally-licenced gun dealer, and repairs, sells and restores firearms.

Written by

Patrick O?Neill
Staff Writer

As a child, while his friends were off at basketball camps, Justin Scheffler was in his grandfather's South Zanesville gun shop rebuilding antique military guns.

It was there, at Maysville Discount Guns, that Scheffler's lifelong appreciation of firearms was born.

Scheffler had always talked about opening his own gun shop, but it took his wife Tonya's hypothetical business model she created in college to turn Scheffler's Straight Shooters into a reality. Last November, the Crooksville couple converted a largely unused shed into a business, serving a niche market of gun lovers. ...